[There's something in Myr that's earnestly relieved to hear there's one person in all Talam who could be gentle to Mello. For all his own anger and despite for the young man, he cannot help but share some of L's sentiment that Mello had been maltreated by life--had deserved better than he'd got. Deserved, as much as anyone did, a chance at redemption.
But Myr is not going to be the one to offer him a hand onto that path. Not and keep true to his own promises.
His ears flick again as L plans aloud, his expression growing more and more troubled. While he understands whole-heartedly why his Witch is scrambling to avoid the confrontation, why L isn't ready, this isn't the right path for it. Everything in him wants to not have to point that out; it would be much easier to be comforting, to murmur assent and support his Bonded's decisions...but it would also be making himself party to lies, and ones that invite disaster besides.]
He'll see right through that. [It's taking a lot not to rest his head against L's knees and mute himself to mumbling. Indistinct advice can be ignored, the conflict safely postponed until a later I-told-you-so makes it inevitable.
That isn't worthy of either of them.] It won't add up. The man's plainly obsessed with you in a way that takes years to accumulate. But to keep him and Eli safe you've got to pretend you've only known them casually--or better, you've only met them in Aefenglom. But you can't catch every contingency or anticipate what either of them, or anyone else who's met them, might give away, and the more explanations you've got to extemporize the more liable you are to cross yourself in your lies.
They're none of them mushrooms. [To be safely kept in the dark and fed bullshit.] Keeping Light and Mello blind to each other won't make them safe in the long run; it only delays the reckoning and favors whoever works out the truth first.
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But Myr is not going to be the one to offer him a hand onto that path. Not and keep true to his own promises.
His ears flick again as L plans aloud, his expression growing more and more troubled. While he understands whole-heartedly why his Witch is scrambling to avoid the confrontation, why L isn't ready, this isn't the right path for it. Everything in him wants to not have to point that out; it would be much easier to be comforting, to murmur assent and support his Bonded's decisions...but it would also be making himself party to lies, and ones that invite disaster besides.]
He'll see right through that. [It's taking a lot not to rest his head against L's knees and mute himself to mumbling. Indistinct advice can be ignored, the conflict safely postponed until a later I-told-you-so makes it inevitable.
That isn't worthy of either of them.] It won't add up. The man's plainly obsessed with you in a way that takes years to accumulate. But to keep him and Eli safe you've got to pretend you've only known them casually--or better, you've only met them in Aefenglom. But you can't catch every contingency or anticipate what either of them, or anyone else who's met them, might give away, and the more explanations you've got to extemporize the more liable you are to cross yourself in your lies.
They're none of them mushrooms. [To be safely kept in the dark and fed bullshit.] Keeping Light and Mello blind to each other won't make them safe in the long run; it only delays the reckoning and favors whoever works out the truth first.